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(Vatican Radio) The Sala Marconi here at Palazzo Pio was the scene Tuesday morning of this week for the presentation of a major new book by Prof. Philip Larrey, a US-born priest of the Rome diocese who holds the chair of logic at the Pontifical Lateran University.Titled Connected World: From Automated Work to Virtual Wars: The Future, By Those Who Are Shaping It, the work explores the consequences of the new digital age in conversation with leaders including Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO of WPP, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google’s parent company Alphabet, Maurice Lévy, CEO of Publicis Groupe – and our own Chris Altieri.Click below to hear our report Ranging from the death of privacy to the rise of artificial intelligence, Connected World asks the existential questions which will come to define our age.The Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, Cardinal George Pell, introduced the book to the participants in the presentation conference. “These ...
The Vatican has sent a message to Jains across the world wishing them on their most important festival and urging their collaboration to "foster non-violence in families to nurture peace in society.” The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue offered its "warmest felicitations" on the occasion of the 2,615th birth anniversary of Tirthankar Vardhaman Mahavir, who gave Jainism its present-day form. “May this festive event bring happiness and peace in your hearts, families and communities!” read the message signed by Council president, Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran and secretary, Bishop Muguel Angel Ayuso Guixot.The annual festival called Mahavir Jayanti, is the biggest in their calendar, and falls on April 9 this year. Mahavir is the 24th and last tirthankara (teacher) of the Jain religion, whose core tenet is non-violence and respect towards all living beings. Jainism, born as a non-Brahminical religious movemen...
Vatican City, Mar 29, 2017 / 04:56 am (CNA/EWTN News).- With the battle for major ISIS strongholds heating up in Iraq, Pope Francis has voiced his closeness to the country, praying for the safety of people on the ground, particularly civilians caught in the crosshairs of the fighting.“My thoughts go out to civilians trapped in the western districts of Mosul and displaced because of the war, to whom I feel united in suffering, through prayer and spiritual closeness,” he said during his March 29 general audience.“While expressing deep sorrow for the victims of the bloody conflict, I renew to all the call to engage with every effort in the protection of civilians as an imperative and urgent requirement.”During the audience, which took place in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope greeted a delegation of Iraqi Superintendents representing various religious groups accompanied by the President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, Cardinal Jean-Louis...
Mexico City, Mexico, Mar 29, 2017 / 09:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Archdiocese of Mexico said in a Sunday editorial that Mexican businessmen who would participate in the construction of a border wall with the United States are as traitors to their country.In the March 26 editorial “Betrayal of the Homeland” in Desde la Fe, the archdiocese stated that “any business with intentions of investing in the wall of the fanatic Trump would be immoral, but above all, its shareholders and owners ought to be considered traitors to the homeland.”United States president Donald Trump had Jan. 25 ordered a wall to be built on the U.S.-Mexico border. An estimated 650 miles of the 1,900 mile-long U.S.-Mexico border have a wall constructed currently. The president has indicated his intention that Mexico will pay for the wall's construction.The Mexico City archdiocese wrote that “as the months go by, the immigration policies of Donald Trump are coming up against realit...
IMAGE: CNS/Paul HaringBy Carol GlatzVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Hope is not built on people'spredictions, assurances or line of reasoning, Pope Francis said. Real Christian hope "is not based on our word, buton God's Word" and promises of salvation and eternal life, the pope saidduring his general audience in St. Peter's Square March 29.Continuing a series of reflections on how the ApostlePaul describes the nature of Christian hope, the pope looked at how Abraham'sfaith is held up as a model for everyone in the apostle's Letter to the Romans(4:16-25).Despite all logic -- Abraham was old and his wifeinfertile -- Abraham "believed, hoping against hope that he would become'the father of many nations,'" which shows how faith is so closelyconnected to hope, the pope said."Our hope is not based on human reasoning,predictions and assurances," he said; real hope arises "where thereis no more hope, where there is nothing left to hope for."True hope "is rooted in faith and, precisely forthis reaso...
IMAGE: CNS photo/Carlos Barria, ReutersBy Dennis SadowskiWASHINGTON(CNS) -- Catholic environmental advocates decried President Donald Trump's executiveorder that would begin a review of his predecessor's Clean Power Plan, which set targets to reducegreenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants.Theadvocates said that reversing any effort that reduces greenhouse gas pollution endangersthe planet and puts the world's most vulnerable people at risk because ofclimate change.Citingthe efforts by Pope Francis, Pope Benedict, St. John Paul II and the U.S.bishops to address the importance of protecting the environment, Dan Misleh,executive director of the Catholic Climate Covenant, said Trump's action"neither protects our common home nor promotes the common good.""Theadministration claims that these new orders will create jobs and grow theeconomy," Misleh said in a statement March 28, the day Trump signed the order. "The fact is, however,that those who work in energy conservation an...
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